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A comment yesterday [1] led me to Chocolatey NuGet [2], a package manager for Windows built on PowerShell. The gallery [3] has almost everything I need to set up a dev environment.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4763895

[2] https://github.com/chocolatey/chocolatey/wiki

[3] http://chocolatey.org/packages

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I was thinking more as a way for installing stuff for more casual users.

Now I think about it these just seems like such an obvious idea that I'm surprised nobody ever did it.

Ninite does a lot of what you are talking about.

It allows you to install some software.

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